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Anversa degli Abruzzi

Province: L'Aquila · 604 m

At 604 meters above the Sagittario Gorges, the cliff village where D'Annunzio set La Fiaccola sotto il moggio in 1905.

Atri

Province: Teramo · 442 m

At 442 meters on three hills ten kilometers from the Adriatic, ancient Hadria, source of the emperor Hadrian's family name and the Adriatic's.

Barrea

Province: L'Aquila · 1,066 m

A 1,066-meter spur above an artificial lake at the heart of the Abruzzo National Park, with a Samnite necropolis and an 11th-century di Sangro castle.

Caramanico Terme

Province: Pescara · 650 m

A 650-meter Majella spa village at the confluence of the Orfento and Orta, with sulphurous springs whose properties were documented in 1576.

Carsoli

Province: L'Aquila · 616 m

A 616-meter mountain town in the Marsica, built next to the ruins of Roman Carsioli, the 4th-century BC fortress on the road to Alba Fucens.

Casoli

Province: Chieti · 378 m

A 378-meter hill town above the Aventino under the Maiella, with a pentagonal Norman tower where Gabriele D'Annunzio held a Renaissance court of artists.

Civitella Alfedena

Province: L'Aquila · 1,123 m

At 1,123 meters above Lake Barrea, 285 residents, the trailhead for the Camosciara reserve and home of the Apennine Wolf Museum.

Civitella del Tronto

Province: Teramo · 589 m

A rocky crest at 589 meters above the Tronto valley, crowned by the last Bourbon fortress to surrender to united Italy in March 1861.

Corfinio

Province: L'Aquila · 346 m

A village of under a thousand on the Peligna valley floor at 346 meters, sitting on the Italic League's would-be capital Italia.

Fara San Martino

Province: Chieti · 440 m

The pasta capital of Italy at 440 meters, where De Cecco was founded in 1886 and the Verde river runs out of a two-meter slot in the Majella wall.

L'Aquila

Province: L'Aquila · 721 m

The regional capital at 721 meters under the Gran Sasso, founded by Frederick II around 1240 and still reconstructing after the 2009 earthquake.

Lama dei Peligni

Province: Chieti · 669 m

A 669-meter Majella village known for chamois, the Cavallone cave, and a prehistoric burial dug from Fonterossi dated 7000 to 5000 BC.

Morino

Province: L'Aquila · 440 m

A village at 440 meters in the Val Roveto on the Lazio border, beneath the central Apennines' second-highest waterfall at over 80 meters.

Ofena

Province: L'Aquila · 531 m

A 531-meter Vestian basin called the Forno d'Abruzzo, sealed by the Gran Sasso wall, where Montepulciano ripens on what may be the oldest of its slopes.

Penne

Province: Pescara · 438 m

The brick city at 438 meters between the Tavo and Fino, ancient capital of the Vestini, rebuilt after Allied bombing and awarded the Silver Medal of Civic Merit.

Pescocostanzo

Province: L'Aquila · 1,395 m

A planned Renaissance town at 1,395 meters on the Quarto Grande plateau, with bobbin lace, wrought iron, and the wood ceilings of a five-nave church.

Pettorano sul Gizio

Province: L'Aquila · 656 m

At 656 meters above the Gizio river, a Cantelmo fortress town that guarded the gateway to the Peligna valley for four hundred years.

Pretoro

Province: Chieti · 530 m

A village of 856 stacked at 530 meters on the eastern Maiella, with wolves in a fenced enclosure and woodturners still working on Via Roma.

Roccamorice

Province: Pescara · 520 m

A village at 520 meters in the Majella foothills, gateway to the rock-cut hermitages where Pietro da Morrone lived before becoming Pope Celestine V.

Sante Marie

Province: L'Aquila · 950 m

A 950-meter Marsica village and the trailhead of the Cammino dei Briganti, the seven-day brigand trail through the Cartore band's territory.

Scanno

Province: L'Aquila · 1,057 m

A 1,057-meter Sagittario valley village photographed by Cartier-Bresson and Giacomelli, where women in black still walk the same alleys as the 1957 series.

Tocco da Casauria

Province: Pescara · 356 m

A 356-meter hill town between the Pescara river and the Maiella, built around a Carolingian abbey and an herb liqueur called Centerba.

Vasto

Province: Chieti · 144 m

At 144 meters on a hill above the Adriatic, southern anchor of the Costa dei Trabocchi, home of the brodetto vastese invented in 1800.

Fontainemore

Province: Aosta Valley · 760 m

A 418-person Walser-influenced village at 760 metres in the Lys Valley, with a single-arch medieval bridge and a five-yearly pilgrimage to Oropa.

Carovigno

Province: Brindisi · 161 m

An upper Salento town between Brindisi and Ostuni, built on the Messapian Carbina destroyed in 473 BC, with the Torre Guaceto marine reserve offshore.

Castellaneta

Province: Taranto · 235 m

A cliff-edge Murge town at 235 meters above the Gravina Grande canyon, birthplace of Rudolph Valentino in 1895, with a Bandiera Blu Ionian marina.

Lecce

Province: Lecce · 49 m

The Baroque capital of the Salento, ninety-four thousand people on the Lecce-stone plain, carving its façades in honey limestone since 1500.

Manduria

Province: Taranto · 79 m

The Messapian capital thirty-five kilometers east of Taranto, ringed by three concentric stone walls and the home of Primitivo.

Martina Franca

Province: Taranto · 431 m

Puglia's second Baroque city after Lecce, on the Itria ridge at 431 meters, with an opera festival in its ducal courtyard since 1975.

Peschici

Province: Foggia · 91 m

A Gargano cliff-top village above the Adriatic with a Norman castle of 1023, white houses spilling toward the sea and trabucchi on the headlands.

Vernole

Province: Lecce · 38 m

A Salento commune ten kilometers from Lecce whose frazione of Acaya is the only Renaissance fortified town in southern Italy.

Vico del Gargano

Province: Foggia · 445 m

A Gargano hill town at 445 meters with a Norman castle, a kiss alley, and DOP citrus groves stepping down to the Adriatic.

Vieste

Province: Foggia · 43 m

The Gargano headland of whitewashed alleys on a white limestone cliff, with the Pizzomunno sea stack standing 26 meters offshore.

Accettura

Province: Matera · 770 m

A 770-meter village in the Gallipoli Cognato park where, each Pentecost, a Turkey oak is married to a holly tree.

Bernalda

Province: Matera · 127 m

A 127-meter hill town between the Bradano and Basento, Francis Ford Coppola's ancestral home, holding the Magna Graecia columns of the Tavole Palatine.

Grottole

Province: Matera · 481 m

A hilltop borgo at 481 meters between the Bradano and Basento, where six hundred empty houses outnumber residents in the centro storico.

Lagonegro

Province: Potenza · 666 m

A 666-meter Valle del Noce town founded by Byzantine monks, where local legend places the burial of Lisa del Giocondo, Leonardo's Mona Lisa.

Matera

Province: Matera · 401 m

Cave dwellings carved into limestone since the Paleolithic, called the shame of Italy in the 1950s and made European Capital of Culture in 2019.

Miglionico

Province: Matera · 461 m

A hilltop borgo at 461 meters above the Bradano, the seven-tower castle that gave the 1485 Conspiracy of the Barons its hall.

Policoro

Province: Matera · 25 m

A Ionian-coast town on the Gulf of Taranto built on the ruins of the Greek polis of Heraclea — birthplace of the Tavole di Eraclea bronze inscriptions and home to one of the region's most-visited Bandiera Blu beaches and the National Museum of the Siritide.

Rotondella

Province: Matera · 576 m

The 'Balcony of the Ionian' — a 2,400-resident Lucanian borgo on a 576m hilltop overlooking the Metapontino plain and the Ionian Sea, with intact medieval streets, the Chiesa di Santa Maria della Neve, and a high-quality DOP olive oil from the surrounding terraced groves.

Corigliano-Rossano

Province: Cosenza · 219 m

The Sibari plain city merged in 2018, home of the UNESCO-listed sixth-century Codex Purpureus and the 1731 Amarelli liquorice dynasty.

Spezzano della Sila

Province: Cosenza · 800 m

A Sila plateau borgo at 800 meters, the gateway to the national park and the Giants of the Sila above Lake Cecita.

Taverna

Province: Catanzaro · 530 m

The birthplace of Mattia Preti at the foot of the Sila Piccola, where the church of San Domenico holds eleven of the Cavaliere Calabrese's paintings.

Pozzuoli

Province: Napoli · 28 m

A Roman port on the Campi Flegrei caldera, the Greek Dicearchia and Roman Puteoli, where the Macellum columns first proved bradyseism.

Bagno di Romagna

Province: Forlì-Cesena · 491 m

A 491-meter thermal town at the head of the Savio valley, drawing on springs that have run at 47 degrees since Roman times.

Borgo Val di Taro

Province: Parma · 411 m

The Cittaslow capital of the upper Taro valley at 411 meters, where the Fungo di Borgotaro IGP porcini has been protected since 1996.

Castell'Arquato

Province: Piacenza · 224 m

A 224-meter hilltop borgo in the Val d'Arda, kept intact since the tenth century and crowned by Luchino Visconti's 1342 fortress.

Cervia

Province: Ravenna · 2 m

The Adriatic salt town with 827 hectares of working saline, planned in 1697 around a grid of salt workers' houses.

Comacchio

Province: Ferrara

A canal town on thirteen islets at the edge of the Po Delta, with brackish lagoons that hold three hundred bird species.

Corniglio

Province: Parma · 690 m

A 690-meter Parma-Apennine commune inside the Tosco-Emiliano park, with a thirteenth-century Rossi castle and the Lagdei plateau above.

Imola

Province: Bologna · 47 m

Bologna's Romagna twin — a medieval brick centro anchored by the Caterina Sforza-fortified Rocca, with the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari (the Imola F1 circuit) wrapping the Santerno river at the southern edge of town.

Sasso Marconi

Province: Bologna · 128 m

A 128-meter pre-Apennine town renamed in 1938 for Marconi, with Villa Griffone holding his tomb and the attic where he first sent radio in 1895.

Vernasca

Province: Piacenza · 457 m

A Val d'Arda commune in the Piacenza Apennines, holding the walled village of Vigoleno and one of the most compact castled borghi in Emilia.

Grado

Province: Gorizia · 2 m

An Adriatic island town inside a 90-square-kilometer lagoon, refuge of the Aquileian patriarchs after 568 and a Habsburg bathing resort thirteen centuries later.

Marano Lagunare

Province: Udine · 2 m

A fishing town on its own pastel-coloured harbour at the heart of the Laguna di Marano — the only Friulian commune set entirely inside the lagoon, with a working fleet, an Aquileian Venetian past, and a still-strict dialect of its own.

Acquapendente

Province: Viterbo · 420 m

The northernmost town in Lazio on the Via Francigena, at 420 meters above the Paglia, named in 964 for its waterfalls.

Bomarzo

Province: Viterbo · 263 m

The Tuscia village below the Sacro Bosco, the 16th-century stone-monster garden built by a grieving condottiero for his dead wife.

Canale Monterano

Province: Roma · 376 m

A hilltop village next to the burned ghost town of Monterano, where Bernini's San Bonaventura and the Baroque fountain stand roofless.

Caprarola

Province: Viterbo · 510 m

A Cimini hill town above Lago di Vico, dominated by the pentagonal Villa Farnese that Vignola built for the Farnese cardinals between 1559 and 1573.

Castel di Tora

Province: Rieti · 607 m

A village of 266 on Lago del Turano at 607 meters, with an eleventh-century polygonal tower and a ghost promontory called Antuni.

Collalto Sabino

Province: Rieti · 980 m

A 980-meter Sabine borgo dominated by a Barberini baronial castle, with a 360-degree panorama from the keep over the Gran Sasso, Terminillo and Maiella.

Fiuggi

Province: Frosinone · 747 m

The Ernici-mountain thermal town where Boniface VIII and Michelangelo both came to dissolve kidney stones with the oligomineral spring water.

Ronciglione

Province: Viterbo · 441 m

A tufa-brick borgo above Lake Vico at 441 meters, fortified by the Prefects of Vico and crowned Borgo dei Borghi in 2023.

Tivoli

Province: Roma · 235 m

A travertine town on the Aniene falls twenty-five kilometers east of Rome, holding two separate UNESCO sites: Hadrian's villa below and the Villa d'Este above.

Ventotene

Province: Latina · 18 m

The smaller of the inhabited Pontine Islands, a flat three-kilometer tuff platform where Altiero Spinelli drafted the federalist Manifesto in 1941.

Cimbergo

Province: Brescia · 851 m

A village of 533 at 851 meters above the Oglio, with castle ruins on a spur and UNESCO petroglyphs on the slopes below.

Iseo

Province: Brescia · 198 m

The main town on the southeast shore of Lake Iseo, gateway to Monte Isola and the Franciacorta sparkling wine country.

Pomponesco

Province: Mantova · 21 m

A Mantova river village at 21 meters on the Po's left bank, with a late-Cinquecento Gonzaga grid and arcaded central piazza.

Soncino

Province: Cremona · 88 m

A walled borgo on the Oglio with the Sforza fortress of 1473 and the press that printed the first complete Hebrew Bible in 1488.

Varzi

Province: Pavia · 416 m

A medieval Malaspina town at 416 meters in the Staffora valley of the Oltrepò Pavese, the seat of one of Italy's first DOP cured meats.

Agnone

Province: Isernia · 840 m

At 840 meters in the Alto Molise, town of the Marinelli pontifical bell foundry and the Ndocciata fire procession on Christmas Eve.

Roccamandolfi

Province: Isernia · 850 m

At 850 meters at the foot of Monte Miletto, a Matese village of brigand legends, Lombard ruins, and a Tibetan bridge over the Callora canyon.

Biella

Province: Biella · 417 m

A wool city at 417 meters in the Alpine foothills, where the medieval Piazzo sits above the modern Piano, connected by a funicular since 1885.

Candelo

Province: Biella · 350 m

A Biellese commune at 350 meters whose Ricetto, a 13th-century fortified shelter of two hundred stone cellule, is the best-preserved in Piedmont.

Gattinara

Province: Vercelli · 265 m

The Alto Piemonte Nebbiolo town on volcanic soil between the Sesia and Monte Rosa, DOCG since 1990, with a tenth-century watchtower above the vines.

Gozzano

Province: Novara · 367 m

The town at the southern tip of Lake Orta, with a ninth-century basilica for Saint Julian and a twelfth-century signaling tower above the water.

Orta San Giulio

Province: Novara · 294 m

A Lake Orta promontory facing an islet with a Romanesque basilica, plus a UNESCO Sacro Monte of twenty Francis-of-Assisi chapels on the hill above.

Susa

Province: Torino · 503 m

The Roman gateway to the Cottian Alps at 503 meters, capital of the Alpes Cottiae and seat of the Cozii under Augustus and Cottius.

Villar San Costanzo

Province: Cuneo · 605 m

A Val Maira village at 605 meters under Monte San Bernardo, with a reserve of 479 mushroom-shaped erosion columns.

Aci Castello

Province: Catania · 15 m

A coastal town just north of Catania on the Riviera dei Ciclopi, where the basalt headland holds the 1076 Norman Castello d'Aci and the seven volcanic Faraglioni dei Ciclopi rise from the sea — the rocks the Cyclops threw at Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey.

Caltagirone

Province: Catania · 611 m

Sicily's ceramic capital at 611 meters on the Erei ridge, 142 majolica-tiled steps to Santa Maria del Monte and a Val di Noto UNESCO baroque rebuild.

Cammarata

Province: Agrigento · 700 m

A Sicani town at 700 meters on the northeast slope of Monte Cammarata, the 1,578-meter peak that gives the comune its name and shape.

Castelvetrano

Province: Trapani · 187 m

The Belice valley town that owns Selinunte, the largest archaeological park in Europe, and bakes black bread from grain found in its tombs.

Catania

Province: Catania · 7 m

Sicily's second city and the cultural anchor of the Ionian coast — a UNESCO late-Baroque centro storico rebuilt in lava-black stone after the 1693 earthquake, sitting at the foot of Etna with a 17th-century elephant fountain (U Liotru) as its civic symbol.

Corleone

Province: Palermo · 542 m

A town of 10,364 in the Palermo hinterland that gave its name to Mario Puzo's Don Vito and now runs Italy's national antimafia documentation centre.

Ferla

Province: Siracusa · 500 m

A baroque village at 500 meters on the Monte Lauro slopes, the western gateway to the UNESCO necropolis of Pantalica eleven kilometers downhill.

Ispica

Province: Ragusa · 170 m

A Val di Noto Baroque hilltown on the southern Iblei plateau anchored by the 13-km Cava d'Ispica canyon with its 3,000+ rock-cut tombs and prehistoric dwellings — one of the largest cave-necropolis sites in the Mediterranean.

Lampedusa e Linosa

Province: Agrigento · 25 m

Italy's southernmost comune, three islands on the African continental shelf, closer to Tunisia than to Sicily.

Lipari

Province: Messina · 44 m

The largest Aeolian island and the only municipality that administers six of the seven, with a clifftop castle citadel rising above two harbors.

Menfi

Province: Agrigento · 119 m

Sicily's triple-signal western coast town — 11,800 residents on a low ridge above 9 km of Bandiera Blu sand at Porto Palo, with the Federico II tower, the Cantine Settesoli cooperative (Italy's largest by volume, 2,000 grower-members), and the rare Bandiera Blu + Città del Vino + Città dell'Olio combination.

Mezzojuso

Province: Palermo · 534 m

An Arbëreshë village on the slope of Rocca Busambra, two mother churches (one Latin, one Byzantine), and an Arabic name meaning the houses of Joseph.

Monreale

Province: Palermo · 310 m

Above the Conca d'Oro at 310 meters, the cathedral William II built between 1174 and 1182 holds 6,340 square meters of Norman mosaics.

Montalbano Elicona

Province: Messina · 907 m

A Nebrodi castle town at 907 meters, Frederick III of Aragon's summer residence and gateway to the Argimusco megalithic plateau.

Nicosia

Province: Enna · 720 m

A Byzantine-Norman royal city at 720 meters on four hills, one of Sicily's principal Gallo-Italic centres where the Lombard dialect nkoukkà still survives.

Noto

Province: Siracusa · 152 m

The capital of Sicilian Baroque, rebuilt in golden limestone after 1693 and the UNESCO showcase for the Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto.

Pachino

Province: Siracusa · 65 m

Sicily's southernmost town on the Capo Passero promontory (further south than Tunis), home of the Pomodoro di Pachino PGI cherry tomato and the historic terroir for Nero d'Avola wine, with the Riserva Naturale Vendicari just up the coast.

Palazzolo Acreide

Province: Siracusa · 670 m

The Iblei plateau's UNESCO Baroque + Greek twin — 8,000-resident hilltop town at 670m, founded over the Greek Akrai colony (664 BC), rebuilt entirely in late Baroque after the 1693 earthquake (inscribed on the Val di Noto UNESCO listing 2002), with the original Greek theatre + the unique Santoni rock carvings of Cybele just outside the modern centro.

Pantelleria

Province: Trapani · 8 m

A volcanic island closer to Tunisia than Sicily, where dry-stone dammusi sit among bush-trained Zibibbo vines listed by UNESCO.

Piana degli Albanesi

Province: Palermo · 720 m

The principal Arbëresh town of Sicily at 720 meters, founded in the fifteenth century by Albanians fleeing the Ottomans and still speaking arbëresh.

Ragusa

Province: Ragusa · 502 m

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Two cities in one on a Hyblean plateau at 502 meters, Ragusa Ibla and Ragusa Superiore split by a ravine after 1693, both UNESCO Baroque.

Sambuca di Sicilia

Province: Agrigento · 350 m

An Arab-founded hill town in the Belice valley, named Borgo dei Borghi in 2016, still called Zabut in living memory before 1923.

San Vito Lo Capo

Province: Trapani · 5 m

A three-kilometer white-sand beach under Monte Monaco at Sicily's northwest tip, the town that turned cous cous into a September festival.

Siracusa

Province: Siracusa · 17 m

The 2,700-year-old Greek city Cicero called the most beautiful in the world — Ortigia island at its heart wrapped in honey-coloured Baroque stone, the 5th-century BC Greek theatre still in use every summer, and Catania's bigger UNESCO sister on the eastern Sicilian coast.

Sortino

Province: Siracusa · 438 m

The eastern gateway to UNESCO Pantalica at 438 meters in the Iblei, Sicily's city of honey and home of the stuffed Sortino pizzolo.

Taormina

Province: Messina · 204 m

A 204-meter terrace above the Ionian with Etna on the southern horizon, a Greek-Roman theatre carved into the rock since the third century BC.

Ustica

Province: Palermo · 49 m

A volcanic island fifty-two kilometers north of Palermo with Italy's first marine protected area, lentil fields on lava, and a long memory as a prison.

Bressanone

Province: Bolzano · 560 m

The oldest town in Tyrol, a prince-bishopric for eight centuries at the confluence of the Eisack and Rienz, below the Plose ridge.

Abetone Cutigliano

Province: Pistoia · 1,388 m

The Apennine ski pass at 1,388 meters where the Granduca's two stone pyramids of 1778 mark the old Tuscan-Modenese border.

Anghiari

Province: Arezzo · 430 m

A walled medieval town at 430 meters over the upper Tiber valley, where Florence beat Milan in 1440 and Leonardo started the fresco he never finished.

Arezzo

Province: Arezzo · 296 m

Tuscany's other set-piece — a 96,000-resident Etruscan-Roman-medieval hilltop city 80 km southeast of Florence, with Piero della Francesca's Leggenda della Vera Croce fresco cycle in San Francesco (1452–66), the sloped Piazza Grande set used by Roberto Benigni in Life is Beautiful, and the Fiera Antiquaria — Italy's largest monthly antique fair, running since 1968.

Capalbio

Province: Grosseto · 217 m

A walled hilltop borgo at 217 meters in the southern Maremma, donated to the Abbey of Tre Fontane by Charlemagne and home of Niki de Saint Phalle's Tarot Garden.

Castellina in Chianti

Province: Siena · 578 m

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A Chianti hill town at 578 meters on the watershed between the Arno and the Ombrone, with an Etruscan tumulus, a Brunelleschi-reinforced wall and a covered medieval walkway around its edge.

Castiglione della Pescaia

Province: Grosseto · 4 m

A Maremma seaside town under an Aragonese castle, with the Vetulonia necropolis behind it, the Diaccia Botrona wetland beside it, and Italo Calvino buried on the hill.

Chiusdino

Province: Siena · 564 m

A medieval village at 564 meters in the Val di Merse where Galgano Guidotti plunged his sword into a rock in 1180 and the roofless Cistercian abbey grew up below.

Grosseto

Province: Grosseto · 10 m

The Maremma capital on the Ombrone river, ringed by hexagonal Medici walls of 1564 that now serve as the city's public park.

Livorno

Province: Livorno · 3 m

Tuscany's working port and Medici-planned 'New City' — a 16th-century planned town built on reclaimed coast, with a Venice-like canal quarter, the Quattro Mori monument, and a 1.5-km seafront promenade that locals call the world's most beautiful balcony.

Manciano

Province: Grosseto · 444 m

A market town at 444 meters in the southern Maremma, with a Sienese fortress of 1424 and the thermal frazione of Saturnia in its territory.

Murlo

Province: Siena · 314 m

A medieval bishops' fief twenty kilometers south of Siena, with an Etruscan princely palace on Poggio Civitate and the Cappellone statue as its symbol.

Orbetello

Province: Grosseto · 3 m

A town on a narrow isthmus at the center of its own lagoon, fortified by Spain in 1557 and tied to Monte Argentario by two tombolos.

Piancastagnaio

Province: Siena · 772 m

A chestnut-belt borgo at 772 meters on the southern slope of Monte Amiata, where four contrade still race for the Palio delle Contrade each August.

Pienza

Province: Siena · 491 m

The first Renaissance ideal city, built from 1459 by Bernardo Rossellino for Pope Pius II on the Val d'Orcia ridge.

Piombino

Province: Livorno · 21 m

A promontory port facing Elba across the channel, founded by refugees from Etruscan Populonia and now the Tuscan archipelago's ferry capital.

Poppi

Province: Arezzo · 437 m

The Casentino borgo at 437 meters whose castle sat above the field where Dante fought the Battle of Campaldino in June 1289.

San Casciano dei Bagni

Province: Siena · 582 m

A hilltop borgo at 582 meters above 42 hot springs that produced the largest Etruscan bronze hoard of the last fifty years.

Auronzo di Cadore

Province: Belluno · 864 m

A five-kilometer ribbon town along an artificial lake at 864 meters, the gateway to the Tre Cime di Lavaredo and Lake Misurina.

Chioggia

Province: Venezia · 2 m

Italy's second fishing port, on an island at the south end of the Venetian Lagoon, called Little Venice for the Canale Vena.

Feltre

Province: Belluno · 325 m

A Renaissance city at 325 meters in the Belluno Prealps, sacked in 1510 by Habsburg troops and rebuilt as the vertical village it remains.

Malcesine

Province: Verona · 89 m

The northernmost Veneto town on Lake Garda, where Goethe was nearly arrested for sketching the Castello Scaligero in September 1786.